Needle



(No Model.)

E. SWEM.

NEEDLE.

No. 411,136. Patented Sept. 1'7, 1889.

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EARL SIVEM, OF CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.

NEEDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 411,136, datedSeptember 17, 1889.

Application filed July 1, 1889.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EARL SWEM, a citizen of the United States, residingat Cedar Rapids, in the county of Linn and State of Iowa, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Needles, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to sewing-needles, and it has for its object toprovide a simple and improved device of this character which can bequickly and readily threaded, and which will possess advantages in pointof inexpensiveness, durability, and general efficiency.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a needle embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a plan View.

Corresponding parts in the figures are denoted by the same letters ofreference.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a needle, which is in the mainof the ordinary or preferred construction, provided at one end with anelongated eye a. Near the inner end of the eye, at one side, is providedan opening for the passage of the thread, formed by separating the sideof the eye at the point mentioned into an inner and outer arm I) b,respectively, the said arms being on a line Serial No. 316,265. (Nomodel.)

with each other. The free end of the arm I) is flat, While the opposingend of the arm I) is beveled inwardly, the edge of which being slightlyseparated from the inner arm. A groove 0 is thus formed between thearms, into which the thread as it is drawn along the needle falls, whenit can be pulled into the eye, the arm I) yielding sufliciently for thatpurpose.

I claim as my invention- As an improved article of manufacture, theherein-described needle, provided with an elongated eye, one side ofwhich being formed by a rigid arm I), having a squared end, the face ofthe latter being at right angles to said arm, and a spring or yieldingarm I), having its end inwardly beveled and projecting nearly to the endof arm I), said arms being in the same longitudinal plane, andformingconjunctively a V-shaped notch open at its contracted end, substantiallyas and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EARL S'WEM.

Witnesses:

I. N. WHITTAM, A. S. KAUFMAN.

